A letter addressed by permission to the Right Honourable Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society, concerning lithotomy / by Thomas Gutteridge.

  • Gutteridge, T. (Thomas)
Date:
[1857]
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Credit: A letter addressed by permission to the Right Honourable Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society, concerning lithotomy / by Thomas Gutteridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TO THE ET. HON. LOED WEOTTESLEY, P.E.S., My Lord, I avail myself of your permission, kindly and promptly accorded, to address you publicly on a subject in- volving at once Philosophy and Philanthropy;—the Wisdom derived from technical experience; and that enlightened Charity which regards with discriminative care the neces- sities of the most afflicted of mankind. I am the more gratified at the leave thus given, because of your Lordship’s combining with the character of a large landed Proprietor and Resident in the district, that of the foremost rank among Philosophers in this Country, and the Official Headship of its Science. My Lord, there is prevalent in the tract of country called the Staffordshire Coal Field, comprising several hun- dred square miles, chiefly in the counties of Stafford and Worcester, a disease the most painful, and ultimately the most fatal, of any to which human beings are liable. It is the lodgement in a vital organ in the inside, of particles of matter which in the healthy body are cast out, aggre- gating, and forming a concretion of stony hardness, and popularly called Stone in the Bladder.